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SGARF HOLDER. No. 360,767. Patented Apr. 5, 1887.

ATTORNEYS;

4 WITNE 858: INVENTOR:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. EAYRS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

SCARF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,767, dated April 5, 1887.

Serial No. 227,723. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN E. EAYRS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scarf-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof, in which- Figure 1 represents my improved holder securing the lower end of a scarf to a shirtfront, and Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the holder detached.

The object of my invention is to provide a holder for securing the lower end of ascarf to a shirt-front to prevent the scarf from rising and being forced out of the breast-opening of a vest; and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

A represents a portion of a shirt-front provided with acollar, and B is the scarf in place thereon. W

O represents-the holder as an entirety, composed of the strip D, preferably of elastic webbing, provided with a safety-pin, E, at its upper end, and a clip, F, at its lower end, having a button-hole slot therein. The cross-piece of the safety-pin E has a loop, eye, or downward projection, e, to prevent the strip D from slipping thereon.

G is the screw passed through a threaded aperture in one arm of the U-shaped piece H, the two forming a combined clamp and button.

The operation is as follows: The strip D is connected to the lower end of the scarf in any suitable manner, preferablyas shown in Fig. 1, and the piece H is placed upon the tuck or hem of the shirt-front or on the edge of one side of an open-front shirt-bosom a proper distance below the scarf, and secured there by turning the screw to cause its inner end to clamp the portion of the shirt against the inner face of the opposite arm of the piece H.

The clip F is now drawn down, its button-hole slot receiving the head of the screw, which is finished in the form of a button. As the lower end of the slot is of less diameter than the button or screw-head, and the elastic strip tends to draw the clip upward, it cannot become disconnected accidentally.

' Patent, is-- 1. The combination,with a scarf,and a strip at the lower end thereof provided with a button-hole slot, of the separate and independent shirt-clamp having a binding-screw, the head of which forms a button adapted to enter said bnttonliole slot, substantially as set forth.

2. In a scarf-holder, the combination, with the strip adapted to be secured to the lower end of a scarf and provided with a clip at its lower end having a button-hole slot, of the combined clamp and button consisting of the independent Ushaped piece and the headed screw passed through one arm thereof, substantially as set forth.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a scarf-holder comprising an elastic strip having an attaching-pin at one end and a keyhole slotted clip at its opposite end, and the combined clamp and button formed of the U- shaped piece and the screw passed through one arm thereof, its head forminga button adapted to enter said keyhole slot, substantially as set forth.

JOHN E. EAYRS.

Witnesses:

SoLoN C. KEMON, J. MIDDLETON. 

